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What Do You Really Want for Your Children?

By Manoj Lekhi

 

Every parent wants their child to grow into a contented, highly functioning, and no limit adult who will be able to handle their own life under all situations. They want their kids to grow up to be no limit people, in every aspect of their lives and to enjoy life without developing  a  sour  attitude.

 

People, who feel successful in fact achieve the highest levels, are   those who are able to ignore the need to have someone provide them with happiness injections. They are those who know how to enjoy life, especially when those around  them  are  going  mad.

 

Happiness in itself does not exist, it’s an illusion. Only by being happy with ourselves can we find it. It is totally personal and comes  from  within.

 

The fact is that most of us do not know how to go about helping children to learn how to enjoy life because we have not learnt that simple secret ourselves. We cannot teach what we do not know. You must live by example! What really counts in life is simply being able to be happy.

 

What  is  more important?

 

What you know or what you feel? What is it that has priority, your knowledge  or  your  feelings?

 

Schools spend 95% of their funds  and energy on developing the cognitive domain. (What we call as Avidya  or  outer  knowledge.)

 

And we all know in our hearts that our emotions take precedence in virtually all life’s important sit-uations.

 

Learning to manage our own emotions to avoid being depressed, afraid, stressful worried etc. is absolutely essential to a full and happy life. Few of us can really manage our own emotions. And even fewer are capable of teaching our children to avoid the pitfalls  of ineffective education in this domain.

 

Let us educate our children to be  no limit people who know how to handle all areas of life dynamically and  effectively.

 

Every child is inherently happy, but too often they loose sight of this natural quality as they pursue  happiness  and  success.

 

The great irony of life is that there is no way to happiness, happiness  is  the  way. Children seem to know this. But they need our guidance   and help to avoid them from becoming self destructive in their youthful enthusiasm of  life. Also we must keep in mind that we have as much to learn from them, as we have to offer them.

 

There is no greater challenge in the world than that of being a parent. We must leave the helm to our young people where we take satisfaction as temporary navigators.~

 

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Madhu Bhatia

 

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